The Hymn in Philippians (Phil 2,6-11) is often put in relationship with texts from the First Testament, be it passages which deal with the pre-existence of wisdom or those which evoke the destiny of the suffering just man. On the basis of the structure and movement of the poem, this article supports a hypothesis which has sometimes been advanced, but little developed so far that the hymn can be read with the back-drop of the presentation of man as the 'image of God' (Gen 1,26-28) and the ill-fated story of Eden (Gen 2-3) put in connexion with the figure of the Servant in Isaiah (Isa 52, 13- 53, 12). What is thus said about Jesus is that he refuses to enter into the logic into which the serpent entices Eve and Adam in order to imitate God who gives, by an act of dispossession, which will also be that of the Servant. Hence Jesus is able to accomplish in himself in the image of God what Adam failed. So he also receives what Adam had wanted to take by force: elevation. By his choice, Christ Jesus offers to God the possibility of recognizing himself as father by giving his own name to him who realized in himself the likeness of his image.